Loved the walk through your past Al. You were always incredibly helpful at the Subi Wrecking yard too, I asked many times for info on cars I owned or was working on at the time. David, ex Kingsley Smith Autos 👌 Would love to catch up again, maybe out in the forest on the dirt bikes 🙂
Grab a paint pen and sign the cold side piping, slap a TSF sticker on the back bumper and get it on FB marketplace. Then buy another HJ classic for modern re-assembly.
A real testament to Al's skills that even after 20 years it's still going, but it is true that you dont get any better unless you practice and i'm sure it was quite funny to look back and see all these bizarre ways of doing things that you know how to do more efficiently and effectively!
I’m only 4 minutes into the video and I need to comment on how humble you are Al. It’s rare today that a person might admit they don’t know it all, and here you are doing a video on your own work, twenty years ago, purely for the purpose of braking down how you could have done it better. It takes a big person to own their mistakes and an even bigger person to broadcast it to the world. We learn and grow through experience and this video is a testament to improving. Honesty, integrity and quality in spades. You’re a huge inspiration and it’s a amazing to see how far you’ve come. A true craftsman only sees the flaws in his work while the rest look on in awe. You’re a credit to the industry. Well done Al and Woody, you guys are keeping it real. It’s always a pleasure.
I really enjoyed this episode and just want to say that I think your brilliant Al 👍 the ideas and ways around issues you come across shows your intelligence in my opinion, so what if it’s not 100% pretty, it’s lasted 20 years which is longer than most OEM product.
Instantly in love with this build. I'm building headers for a 1UZ swap in my 95 Nissan D21. My Dad bought it new and it was my first manual vehicle. Got a Collins adapter for the manny tranny. First time building headers and I got the passenger side done last night.
This is a really important episode to see for people learning. There is no way to do it right but to do it wrong. I am a strong believer in learning and practicing so this is the holy grail.
You’ve come a looong way Al, we’ve all got to start somewhere and this car is a great starting point. Keep up the great work Al and Woody, loving the content
this shows us all that you dont have to spend thousands on a build getting caught up in the "you must have " hype. The most important thing is getting out there and working on your car within your budget and enjoying it.
Nothing wrong with a 50 odd year car still on the road, from what could be made with what you’ve got Much respect always good to look back at how far you’ve come
A great donk, perfect for the application; along with some - umm - cost effective mods holding it all together - but 20 odd years and still cranking. Winning!
Lol I'm surprised you didn't break something revving her up like that. I was like ohhhhhh noooooo not again! Sounds absolutely amazing. So cool! One like equals one prayer for the engine.
Well done Al! 20yrs ago eBay, Supercheap and online shopping didn’t exist. Mods were determined by what parts you found raiding scrap cars at a country tip, and hillbilly ingenuity. Your fuse box proves this, great mod and use of thought. It was a great era as you were always thinking and evolving.
Thanks guys. This gives me hope, as the approach I take to most problems on my car is similar to this. Hopefully my stuff holds together for this long!
he's pushing me more and more toward just doing something. lol. ultimate lack of purity would be the 1UZ in a cortina? or RX3? whatever you do with it i hope you will be able to make a video like this in twenty years.
This was gold... love all the laughs about the way ya did stuff n what not. Was good fun to watch. I needed the laugh. Wish I had a place and spare funds to do a build. So I'm living (building) vicariously through you guys 😂
this was an awesome episode. love the casual Al. 20 years later still building great cars. that says a lot Al. respect! are there 20 years of Al builds still out there that would be happy to let you do an episode like this? that would be brilliant. love the content style, the work. hope i'll still be watching in 20 years.
Very true Al. I've been modifying and building cars for about the same time as you and each successive project has been better built based on lessons learned from the previous ones. It's so much easier to be inspired and learn from others since the advent of UA-cam and the internet generally.
I love this AL. Give yourself some credit, while behind the lens it may look complimented. Some of this work is of a fair standard really. Just because you're being resourceful doesn't discount the quality of most OEM parts over many aftermarket parts of that time anyway. And can make building cars surprisingly affordable! This car is quite a high achiever for what it owes you.
I love this. We're just about to lay the loom into my UZ mx5, with the intention of force feeding it once it's proven to all work right. This just makes me even more keen!
This is so good, everyone does the same thing when they ;look back at what they did 20 years ago. I bought a Mazda 1300 over 20 years ago and redid much of the conversion because it was a little too sketchy. I'm doing most of it again now, because what was good enough for 20 year old me isn't good enough for 40+ year old me. It still worked, just could use some improvement.
Brilliant! I worked in a Subaru breaker as a youngster, I think almost every project I’ve worked on for the last twenty years has had Subaru 12mm headed M8 bolts in it somewhere I used to sweep up off the floor…. I’ve also still got about four blue jacks and a fusebox out of MV pickups lurking in my shed somewhere 😂
VDO fuel gauges working backwards...I had the same on an old build, that bought back some memories! Thanks for sharing an honest view on your old handywork! It sounds good though.
Good quality budget build from back in the day, i love it. I was doing some low budget turbo adaptations in the late 90s before the internet, was tough living in the country and trying buy stuff from the add's in zoom magazine to get things to work.
We all start somewhere :) My first "build" was adding EFI to a carbie car, when I figured out you'd need to swap the flywheel to provide the signal to the ECU I just gutted the distributor and used that as crank signal. Worked like a charm. Sold it like that and the new owner used it for years before losing the car in an accident.
Are all mechanics the same? I STILL have a box of connectors I harvested from electrical jobs AND a drawer full of colored wires I go to on occasion. Actually bought industrial weather proof connectors off of eBay for my project and will be making the new engine and dash harnesses from scratch because nothing is factory anymore. Multiple trips to the wreckers make for inexpensive (cheap!) hot rodding. It’s amazing how we can cobble others people junk together and make something better than ordinary. Even 20 years less experience and still good. Thanks for sharing.
I like back at things I've built in the past and shake my head too 🤣 But it did the job at that time. It's like rings in a tree, showing you the history 👍👍
I don't see anything wrong with the build, infact I would say that was an A+ job for 20 years ago. If you did it now it would be fancy bolt on parts etc but the fact it's still a working car says everything. Really enjoyed this episode lads.
That’s a neat Ute for shredding tyres ❤my mum had one ☝️ It was the first time I heard her swear lol 😂 the bonnett came up doing 100 on a bridge 🌁 lol 😂
Talking about doing the best job you can do with the skills/knowledge you have. It raises the question. What was your biggest screwup, what were the repercussions and what did it teach you? I think it's good to talk about the failures as well as the wins, and none of us are perfect. I recently made a mistake while working on a car that could have gone an awful lot worse than it did. The end result was a ball joint dropping out of a control arm at 110kph because of one very simple assumption and an oversight due to inexperience with that particular make/model of vehicle. It could have been so much worse than it was, and I was able to fortunately fix it on the side of the road, but it was a very important lesson.
Still seriously cool. Still working well. All wins here. No doubt one day someone'll change things & maybe it'll be unrecognisable. That's life. Thing is you did your bit & did it extremely well so that's winning. All winning but if you if that car changes again its all winning. No doubt you guys picked up tons more skills & experience along the day but you were starting at a cool high level. Keep smashing it.
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it?
Loved the walk through your past Al.
You were always incredibly helpful at the Subi Wrecking yard too, I asked many times for info on cars I owned or was working on at the time.
David, ex Kingsley Smith Autos 👌
Would love to catch up again, maybe out in the forest on the dirt bikes 🙂
If it ain’t broke, fix it until it is.
Grab a paint pen and sign the cold side piping, slap a TSF sticker on the back bumper and get it on FB marketplace. Then buy another HJ classic for modern re-assembly.
Also "if it's stupid and it works it's not stupid"
fun video guys, thanks!
But if the motor coming out and going in something else a century V12 engine would be a interesting conversion for the channel
but it STILL WORKS after 20 years. that's a win in any book for sure.
You ain't kidding!
"Third gear and smack it back to first, hope for the best. Hope there's some residual BOOST."
I have so much to learn.
Personally i like this, building stuff with whatever you can get at the time cheaply is way cooler than throwing all the money at brand new stuff.
A real testament to Al's skills that even after 20 years it's still going, but it is true that you dont get any better unless you practice and i'm sure it was quite funny to look back and see all these bizarre ways of doing things that you know how to do more efficiently and effectively!
I’m only 4 minutes into the video and I need to comment on how humble you are Al. It’s rare today that a person might admit they don’t know it all, and here you are doing a video on your own work, twenty years ago, purely for the purpose of braking down how you could have done it better. It takes a big person to own their mistakes and an even bigger person to broadcast it to the world. We learn and grow through experience and this video is a testament to improving. Honesty, integrity and quality in spades. You’re a huge inspiration and it’s a amazing to see how far you’ve come. A true craftsman only sees the flaws in his work while the rest look on in awe. You’re a credit to the industry. Well done Al and Woody, you guys are keeping it real. It’s always a pleasure.
I really enjoyed this episode and just want to say that I think your brilliant Al 👍 the ideas and ways around issues you come across shows your intelligence in my opinion, so what if it’s not 100% pretty, it’s lasted 20 years which is longer than most OEM product.
Instantly in love with this build.
I'm building headers for a 1UZ swap in my 95 Nissan D21. My Dad bought it new and it was my first manual vehicle. Got a Collins adapter for the manny tranny. First time building headers and I got the passenger side done last night.
Love the intercooler piping over the battery lol
The smile on Al's face :) Gotta be proud of having a car you built which has been abused for 20 years turn up back at the shed still doing burnouts.
This is a really important episode to see for people learning. There is no way to do it right but to do it wrong. I am a strong believer in learning and practicing so this is the holy grail.
11:30 *Abe Simpson:* The important thing was that I had checkerplate surrounding my gauges, which was the style at the time.
Toes for the shed brakes?
There he goes, one of God's own prototypes.
We’ve got no idea what he said? “That was for the shed mates” ???
Could he have been naming the guy yelling from the side line?
Seeing 20 years younger AL's welds makes me feel less bad about my current welding ability. Just need to do it more, thanks for sharing your progress.
Practice makes "perfect"
Love story time with Al. Not stupid as long as it works!
That’s awesome guys. Something different than all the ls swaps (which wouldn’t have been a thing 20+ years ago but that’s mint.
Hell yeah, finally some Brumby in a skid factory video!!
You’ve come a looong way Al, we’ve all got to start somewhere and this car is a great starting point. Keep up the great work Al and Woody, loving the content
Cheers for a memory lane episode I liked it 👍
thanks al, its always nice to see a blast from the past.....
Thought that was woody breaking something trying to do a burnout at first and then realised it was old footage 😂
I had to laugh at the alternator bulb...done the same thing 😂
this shows us all that you dont have to spend thousands on a build getting caught up in the "you must have " hype. The most important thing is getting out there and working on your car within your budget and enjoying it.
So awesome
Must be kool to have good great group of mates that are all into cars. And keep things in the circle. Awesome to see 🤘
The crude-ness of this car is perfect. Don't ever change it!
jeez dude that dash is classic!!!!!!!
Love that you showed that you were just like us all starting out and just using what you can find to make it work not many people would do that
Bring back the *"Tree Pipty Chebbeh, Fow Bowl Mayne, Camel Hurmp Heyeds, and a Free Quowtah Race cam!"*
Nothing wrong with a 50 odd year car still on the road, from what could be made with what you’ve got
Much respect always good to look back at how far you’ve come
For a near 45 year old Holden it still looks in good shape, bit of a tart up an new set of Dunlop Guardians and it's good for another decade. 🙂
A great donk, perfect for the application; along with some - umm - cost effective mods holding it all together - but 20 odd years and still cranking. Winning!
Lol I'm surprised you didn't break something revving her up like that. I was like ohhhhhh noooooo not again! Sounds absolutely amazing. So cool! One like equals one prayer for the engine.
Yeah I was asking for trouble.
Well done Al! 20yrs ago eBay, Supercheap and online shopping didn’t exist. Mods were determined by what parts you found raiding scrap cars at a country tip, and hillbilly ingenuity. Your fuse box proves this, great mod and use of thought. It was a great era as you were always thinking and evolving.
Thanks guys. This gives me hope, as the approach I take to most problems on my car is similar to this. Hopefully my stuff holds together for this long!
i just love this build,use what you got make it work ,and it still works ,love it
You're pushing me more and more to wanting to do something with a 1uz 😅
he's pushing me more and more toward just doing something. lol. ultimate lack of purity would be the 1UZ in a cortina? or RX3? whatever you do with it i hope you will be able to make a video like this in twenty years.
So 1990’s the colour the engine, lol. Love it.
I think that's a factory color.
Al you gave it the love it deserved, no shame in showing it. Still a nice car!
This was gold... love all the laughs about the way ya did stuff n what not. Was good fun to watch. I needed the laugh. Wish I had a place and spare funds to do a build. So I'm living (building) vicariously through you guys 😂
I love the 'what have we got to make this work' attitude & it's lasted so well!
That music playing at 2% in background does my head in ! Keep thinking someone is outside tooting their horn every time the chorus kicks in !
Haha same
Back to roots of hot rodding and modifying with that build al, using what ya got, friggin love it 🤘🤠👍
Great to look back and see how much you improved youreself
The good ol days,times may have changed but a cool car will always rule, love the channel and keep it up mate cheers 🍻🍻👍
this was an awesome episode. love the casual Al. 20 years later still building great cars. that says a lot Al. respect! are there 20 years of Al builds still out there that would be happy to let you do an episode like this? that would be brilliant. love the content style, the work. hope i'll still be watching in 20 years.
love it. The ingenuity is high in this one!
Very true Al. I've been modifying and building cars for about the same time as you and each successive project has been better built based on lessons learned from the previous ones. It's so much easier to be inspired and learn from others since the advent of UA-cam and the internet generally.
Loved this! I read and took ideas from fullboost magazine in the early 2000's and so many engine conversions were like this 📈🐨
might be rough by today-Al standards but its been copping a flogging for 20yrs and still kicking.. thats a win 👌. thanks for the walkthru 🧐🍻
Love it! Bloody amazing episode!!! 👌
That's awesome to see you were very resourceful and make it work , reminds me of myself lol 😆
Nicely said Al, we’ll done for this awesome trip down memory lane.
I love this AL. Give yourself some credit, while behind the lens it may look complimented. Some of this work is of a fair standard really. Just because you're being resourceful doesn't discount the quality of most OEM parts over many aftermarket parts of that time anyway. And can make building cars surprisingly affordable! This car is quite a high achiever for what it owes you.
This is like going back to dial-up internet and land line phones. A lot has changed but the main thing is, it still works!
Love the sloppy reference , the fact it’s ran for 20 years of thrashing is epic.
Had some fun with Scott on the way to work many mornings back when the motorway was quiet and still had over taking areas
That rig was awesome. It's like a time capsule.
I love this. We're just about to lay the loom into my UZ mx5, with the intention of force feeding it once it's proven to all work right. This just makes me even more keen!
That was a marvellous meander indeed.
The old adage rings true - if it looks like shit but it works, then it's not shit!
That bay looks so clean and what a brilliant reflection on the quality workmanship you are known for Al 👍
3:23 *- "Oh what a feeling... Toyota!"*
If it’s stupid and it works , it ain’t stupid!
Loved the episode lads
It's great mate. We'd love to see some more older builds. 👍
This is so good, everyone does the same thing when they ;look back at what they did 20 years ago. I bought a Mazda 1300 over 20 years ago and redid much of the conversion because it was a little too sketchy.
I'm doing most of it again now, because what was good enough for 20 year old me isn't good enough for 40+ year old me. It still worked, just could use some improvement.
I love the tragicomedy of revisiting my own past projects
Those things drive like a boat.
Brilliant! I worked in a Subaru breaker as a youngster, I think almost every project I’ve worked on for the last twenty years has had Subaru 12mm headed M8 bolts in it somewhere I used to sweep up off the floor…. I’ve also still got about four blue jacks and a fusebox out of MV pickups lurking in my shed somewhere 😂
VDO fuel gauges working backwards...I had the same on an old build, that bought back some memories! Thanks for sharing an honest view on your old handywork! It sounds good though.
Good quality budget build from back in the day, i love it. I was doing some low budget turbo adaptations in the late 90s before the internet, was tough living in the country and trying buy stuff from the add's in zoom magazine to get things to work.
Zoom was the bible.
Looks very Vicegrip Garage. And goes like it too 🔧🔧👍👍
We all start somewhere :) My first "build" was adding EFI to a carbie car, when I figured out you'd need to swap the flywheel to provide the signal to the ECU I just gutted the distributor and used that as crank signal. Worked like a charm. Sold it like that and the new owner used it for years before losing the car in an accident.
Thong slap like a boss 🤠🤠
Are all mechanics the same? I STILL have a box of connectors I harvested from electrical jobs AND a drawer full of colored wires I go to on occasion. Actually bought industrial weather proof connectors off of eBay for my project and will be making the new engine and dash harnesses from scratch because nothing is factory anymore. Multiple trips to the wreckers make for inexpensive (cheap!) hot rodding. It’s amazing how we can cobble others people junk together and make something better than ordinary. Even 20 years less experience and still good. Thanks for sharing.
I think that may be the best engine ever put in a olden and with a turbo 👍👍👍
I like back at things I've built in the past and shake my head too 🤣 But it did the job at that time. It's like rings in a tree, showing you the history 👍👍
Amen, Alan. Just get out there and do it.
Pretty ingenious. Good job man.I love it.
I don't see anything wrong with the build, infact I would say that was an A+ job for 20 years ago. If you did it now it would be fancy bolt on parts etc but the fact it's still a working car says everything. Really enjoyed this episode lads.
That’s a neat Ute for shredding tyres ❤my mum had one ☝️ It was the first time I heard her swear lol 😂 the bonnett came up doing 100 on a bridge 🌁 lol 😂
I bloody love you guys! Just found the channel. Instant subscribe.
Defo looks and works better than anything I would have done!
Legendary - still does sick skids!
Talking about doing the best job you can do with the skills/knowledge you have. It raises the question.
What was your biggest screwup, what were the repercussions and what did it teach you?
I think it's good to talk about the failures as well as the wins, and none of us are perfect.
I recently made a mistake while working on a car that could have gone an awful lot worse than it did. The end result was a ball joint dropping out of a control arm at 110kph because of one very simple assumption and an oversight due to inexperience with that particular make/model of vehicle. It could have been so much worse than it was, and I was able to fortunately fix it on the side of the road, but it was a very important lesson.
Background music was fire🔥 🔥
This is so good. Makes me feel normal.
I'm impressed by Al every week
I'm that old guy, my 1st work ute was a hq with a 350 on gas.lol.I have an original ambulance pac now
That's Woody sporting a mullet!
He was engineer to so makin bits bro love it.
Best sounding v8 out there beside the old iron lion 💪🏻💪🏻
It sounds terrible dude 😂 a stock 253 sounds better.
Such a great engine.
Love a Kingswood, Bless us Turbo Yoda...
Fit a PDU on it, get that wiring clean as. The diamond plate gauge panels sweet!
in grew up when diamond plate was the bomb. so old skool cool.
@@williamhardes8081 Yeah same, I used to want one of the Hetfield Diamond plate fronted Explorers 😂
Always loved ya work Al.
Hope to catch up at the next meet at willowbank now I'm a local.
I’m nice work kids. Can’t wait to see it finished and go for a spin 🙏
I need to video a few of my old audio installs. This makes me think of the things I did to make things complete back in the day.
Now thats my style of build 👌
Still seriously cool. Still working well. All wins here. No doubt one day someone'll change things & maybe it'll be unrecognisable. That's life.
Thing is you did your bit & did it extremely well so that's winning.
All winning but if you if that car changes again its all winning.
No doubt you guys picked up tons more skills & experience along the day but you were starting at a cool high level. Keep smashing it.
Should probably have explained that you meant LPG, the yanks will get confused why “gas only” was a problem. 😂
And being straight gas, little wiring issues on the starting circuit is not new, most times it is just a ground not making good connection somewhere.
Some good advice for life in general there gentlemen.